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"More than 400 petitions delivered to the European Parliament draw attention to the widespread misleading commercial practices employed by certain ‘business directory companies’, consisting of persuading businesses and also non-profit entities to register free of charge in a directory, only to discover that they have signed a contract that also entails a fee. However, directory companies are often established in a Member State other than the one in which their victims are based, making it difficult for the latter to seek protection or redress from national authorities.
Regrettably, Directive 2006/114/EC concerning misleading and comparative advertising, which applies to business-to-business transactions, fails to provide a sufficiently effective remedy or is inadequately enforced by Member States. Since the Commission is obliged to ensure that this directive is properly implemented by Member States, it should take stock of the situation, and, where necessary, take appropriate corrective action. In particular, it has a duty and a responsibility to stop the misleading commercial practices used by ‘directory companies’. The production of some sort of blacklist of the misleading practices employed by these companies could be of at least some assistance here."@en1
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